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Article #857Microsoft Uses NDAs To Cripple Competitors (was: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
From: Mark S. Bilk
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00
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In article <m34s9i43ew.fsf@thyme.td.micromuse.co.uk>,
Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote:
>philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (phil hunt) writes:
>
>> Microsoft is guilty, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!
>>
>> The only think that remains to be decided is what sentence the judge will
>> pass.
>Would the open-source community be interested in hacking Windoze code,
>should (for example) IE5 be open-sourced?
Rex Ballard has described how Microsoft uses non-disclosure
agreements to prevent competitors like Linux from obtaining
the details of various essential hardware and software
interfaces. MS should be required to stop this practice,
and the current NDAs should be rescinded.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1125fa,416ad9dfdbe1f354,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1125fa,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,597fd1e0867b4fcd X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,597fd1e0867b4fcd X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,597fd1e0867b4fcd X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: 10b427,416ad9dfdbe1f354,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10b427,public From: msb@netcom.com (Mark S. Bilk) Subject: Microsoft Uses NDAs To Cripple Competitors (was: Guilty, 'til proven guilty Date: 2000/04/04 Message-ID: <8ccii6$r8e$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> X-Deja-AN: 606504158 References: <slrn8eii76.29b.philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> <m34s9i43ew.fsf@thyme.td.micromuse.co.uk> Organization: Cosmic Church of the Orgone Goddess Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft